[ Blade startles at the question. Not the cleaning, because he hardly moves when she does that. Since he's still in the random suit, she will notice that the blood is probably still like...a lot of places; healed up but did not have time change/wash up yet. Blood can be seen on the center of his chest, most of his back (if she like checks), arms, most of his legs (hell even his feet were not spared injury.) ]

No shame...?

[ For a moment, he recalls again the memory of that agony that nearly killed him, but Yuri's confiding words about Alex finally gives him the edge for the final push. ]

...You too, then. Mine...

Kafka's voice was there, with the two others. They all asked if I remembered...the feeling of death. Telling me constantly to remember. Or if I would forget...once more. I would never know the release of An Eternity. A question about what it felt like to die.

It was maddening...this continuing talk about An Eternity and myself experiencing it. Those questions. Those statements.